Web browsers drop mysterious company with ties to U.S. military contractor

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Mozilla and Microsoft said they will stop recognizing TrustCor Systems as a root certificate authority after revelations by The Washington Post show that it had ties to a U.S. military contractor linked to spyware.

on Nov. 8 that TrustCor’s Panamanian registration records showed the same slate of officers, agents and partners as a spyware-maker identified this year as an affiliate of Arizona-based Packet Forensics, which has sold communication interception services to U.S. government agencies for more than a decade. One of those contracts listed the “place of performance” as Fort Meade, Md., the home of the National Security Agency and the Pentagon’s Cyber Command.

The Post report built on the work of two researchers who had first located the company’s corporate records, Joel Reardon of the University of Calgary and Serge Egelman of the University of California at Berkeley. Those two and others also ran experiments on a secure email offering from TrustCor named MsgSafe.io. They found that contrary to MsgSafe’s public claims, emails sent through its system were not end-to-end encrypted and could be read by the company.

of the China Internet Network Information Center after it allowed an intermediate authority to issue fake certificates for Google sites.Reardon and Egelman earlier this year found that Packet Forensics was connected to the Panamanian company Measurement Systems, which paid software developers to include code in a variety of apps to record and transmit users’ phone numbers, email addresses and exact locations.

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Probably, after some time, each country or block of countries will oblige manufacturers of devices with a particular OS to install only their root certificates.

morgfair As if they are the only ones.

Transparent?Like this antiConstitutional& antiConstitutional regime?Not like CCP members R head of Intel&national security advisor or anything.Worked 4 Killary&Obama took a leave of absence during Trump 2 work 4 a CCP think tank& educated China on our government, laws& elections?

So: someone is 'linked' to smth they consider to be their job (what a shame to do your own job!); next, that party has 'ties' (undisclosed, they provide bably liked same restaurant in Facebook) with yet another somebody - seems enough to blame and ban. Good.

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